| Title Page | 
		
			| Authorities Consulted | 
		
			| BOOK I. INTRODUCTION
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			| Chapter 1 - | THE HIGHER CRITICISM. | 
		
			| Chapter 2 - | THE BOOKS OF KINGS. | 
		
			| Chapter 3 - | THE HISTORIAN OF THE KINGS. | 
		
			| Chapter 4 - | GOD IN HISTORY. | 
		
			| Chapter 5 - | HISTORY WITH A PURPOSE. | 
		
			| Chapter 6 - | LESSONS OF THE HISTORY. | 
		
			| BOOK II. DAVID AND SOLOMON
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			| Chapter 7 - | DAVID'S DECREPITUDE. - 1 Kings 1:1-4 | 
		
			| Chapter 8 - | AN EASTERN COURT AND HOME - 1 Kings 1 | 
		
			| Chapter 9 - | ADONIJAH S REBELLION. - 1 Kings 1:5-53 | 
		
			| Chapter 10 - | DAVID S DEATH-BED. - 1 Kings 2:1-11 | 
		
			| Chapter 11 - | AVENGING JUSTICE. - 1 Kings 2:13-46 | 
		
			| Chapter 12 - | THE BOY-KING'S WISDOM. - 1 Kings 3:5-28 | 
		
			| Chapter 13 - | SOLOMON S COURT AND KINGDOM. - 1 Kings 
			4:1-34 | 
		
			| Chapter 14 - | THE TEMPLE. - 1 Kings 5, 6, 7 | 
		
			| Chapter 15 - | THE IDEAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TEMPLE. - 
			1 Kings 4: | 
		
			| Chapter 16 - | THE ARK AND THE CHERUBIM. - 1 Kings 
			6:23-30; 8:6-11 | 
		
			| Chapter 17 - | THE GRADUAL GROWTH OF THE LEVITIC 
			RITUAL. - 1 Kings 8:1-66 | 
		
			| Chapter 18 - | THE TEMPLE WORSHIP. - 1 Kings 8:1-11 | 
		
			| Chapter 19 - | THE TEMPLE SACRIFICES. - 1 Kings 
			8:62-66; 9:25 | 
		
			| Chapter 20 - | SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY. - 1 Kings 
			10:1-29 | 
		
			| Chapter 21 - | HOLLOW PROSPERITY. - 1 Kings 11 | 
		
			| Chapter 22 - | THE OLD AGE OF SOLOMON. - 1 Kings 
			11:1-13 | 
		
			| Chapter 23 - | THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND. - 1 Kings 
			11:14-41 | 
		
			| Book III THE DIVIDED KINGDOM
 B.C. 937-889
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			| Chapter 24 - | A NEW REIGN. B.C. 937 - 1 Kings 12:1-5 | 
		
			| Chapter 25 - | THE DISRUPTION - 1 Kings 12:6-20 | 
		
			| Chapter 26 - | "JEROBOAM THE SON OF NEBAT, WHO MADE ISRAEL 
			TO SIN." B.C. 937 -915 - 1 Kings 12:21-23 | 
		
			| Chapter 27 - | JEROBOAM, AND THE MAN OF GOD. - 1 Kings 
			13:1-34 | 
		
			| Chapter 28 - | DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF NEBAT. - 1 Kings 
			14:1-20 | 
		
			| Chapter 29 - | NADAB; BAASHA; ELAH. B.C. 915-889 - 1 
			Kings 15:25; 16:10 | 
		
			| Chapter 30 - | THE EARLIER KINGS OF JUDAH. B.C. 
			937-851 - 1 Kings 22:41-50 | 
		
			| Chapter 31 - | JEHOSHAPHAT. B.C. 876-851 - 1 Kings 
			14:21-31; 15:1-24 | 
		
			| Chapter 32 - | THE KINGS OF ISRAEL FROM ZIMRI TO AHAB. B.C. 
			889-877 | 
		
			| Book IV AHAB AND ELIJAH
 B.C. 877-855
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			| Chapter 33 - | KING AHAB AND QUEEN JEZEBEL. - 1 Kings 
			16:29-34 | 
		
			| Chapter 34 - | ELIJAH. - 1 Kings 17:1-7 | 
		
			| Chapter 35 - | ELIJAH AT SAREPTA. - 1 Kings 17:7-18:19 | 
		
			| Chapter 36 - | ELIJAH AND AHAB. - 1 Kings 18:1-20 | 
		
			| Chapter 37 - | ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL. - 1 Kings 
			18:20-40 | 
		
			| Chapter 38 - | THE RAIN. - 1 Kings 18:41-46 | 
		
			| Chapter 39 - | ELIJAH'S FLIGHT. - 1 Kings 19:1-4 | 
		
			| Chapter 40 - | ELIJAH'S DESPAIR. - 1 Kings 19:1-10 | 
		
			| Chapter 41 - | HOW GOD DEALS WITH DESPONDENCY. - 1 
			Kings 19:5-8 | 
		
			| Chapter 42 - | THE THEOPHANY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. - 1 
			Kings 19:9-18 | 
		
			| Chapter 43 - | THE CALL OF ELISHA. - 1 Kings 19:19-21 | 
		
			| Chapter 44 - | AHAB AND BENHADAD. - 1 Kings 20:1-30 | 
		
			| Chapter 45 - | AHAB'S INFATUATION. - 1 Kings  
			20:31-43 | 
		
			| Chapter 46 - | NABOTH'S VINEYARD. - 1 Kings 21:1-29 | 
		
			| Chapter 47 - | ALONE AGAINST THE WORLD. - 1 Kings 
			22:1-40 | 
		
			| Chapter 48 - | CONCLUSION. | 
		
			| Appendix | CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS. |